The leaders of Muslim community and religious organizations signed a joint document on December 11, 2017 - The Social Concept of Muslims in Ukraine. At a solemn meeting, representatives of Islamic organizations spoke about the history of this document.

The ruins of the old church in the district center of Rozhische in Volyn have become the subject of controversy between the Protestants and the Orthodox. The temple was built in the nineteenth century by the Baptists, “the Soviets” expropriated and placed manufacturing plants in the church.

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… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…

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The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.

Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian society suffer from division. The majority of Ukrainian Orthodox believers belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The rest of the Orthodox community of Ukraine has chosen a different path of self-proclaimed autocephaly. However, neither the first nor the second path is optimal for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine to date.

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Most Ukrainians do not support the idea of state church

More than half of Ukrainians (56%) do not support the idea of ​​creating a state church, which would have a privileged position. Such data was made public by the Razumkov Center, according to RISU.

Only 12.4% of Ukrainians would like to have a state church maintained at the expense of the church tax. Among those who support this idea, 38% see the status of the Kyiv Patriarchate, 22% - the united autocephalous Orthodox Church, and 8% of the UOC-MP and the UGCC.

Among those opposed, thoughts were divided almost equally. 42% believe that it is contrary to the right to freedom of conscience and will lead to discrimination, while 38% are sure that Ukraine is historically a multi-confessional state and giving priority to any Church will provoke tensions in society.

However, 42.6% of respondents believe that the very principle of separation of the Church from state and school from the Church is necessary for democracy and the right to freedom of conscience. 29% of Ukrainians disagree with this.

In this context, as compared to previous years, the number of those who do not want to teach religion in schools of general education is gradually increasing. From 2010 to 2018 their number gradually increased from 31% to 43%. At the same time, the number of adherents of teaching religion in schools gradually diminished. During the same period, it gradually decilnes from 38.4 to 31.5%.

The poll showed that a quarter of Ukrainians believe that Orthodox Churches should unite in one church and seek independence.

As reported, today the Razumkov Center has presented the results of a sociological study “Peculiarities of Religious and Church-Religious Self-determination of Ukrainian Citizens: Trends in 2010-2018.” The survey was conducted from March 23 to March 28, 2018 throughout Ukraine, with the exception of the temporarily annexed Crimea and the occupied regions of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts. 2016 respondents aged above 18 were interviewed, the theoretical error is not more than 2.3%.